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Excavations at Nohoch Ek, British Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William R. Coe  and
Michael D. Coe
William R. Coe
Affiliation:
The University Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.
Michael D. Coe
Affiliation:
Peabody MuseumCambridge, Mass.
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The course of Maya archaeology has been characterized for the most part by an intensive interest in large ceremonial centers, and justifiably so in view of their clearly rich and rewarding content. Yet the nature of these excavations has necessarily restricted knowledge of preconquest developments in this region to a highly hierarchic level, as witnessed by work in such sites as Kaminaljuyu, Copan, Uaxactun, and Piedras Negras. Remarkably little is known of conditions on a less spectacular level, but a recent trend in this direction is evident in the house-mound and population studies by Carnegie at Mayapan and by Gordon Willey in British Honduras. And we hope that Nohoch Ek, about as insignificant as Maya sites of this type come, may help to illustrate the evolution and workings of an obviously minor ceremonial center.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , April 1956 , pp. 370 - 382
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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